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I've been reading Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript and it introduced me to objects. So after reading the book and working on the projects I decided to take this new found knowledge and integrate objects in my own projects. So here's my question can or should objects call their own functions? For example: var someObject = { start: function() { check(); }, check: function() { console.log("Check!"); } }; someObject.start(); The book did show an example with a timer that does this: var timer = { start: function() { var self = this; window.setInterval(function(){self.tick();}, 1000); }, tick: function() { console.log('tick!'); } }; In the example with timer object it makes a reference to self in order to call the internal function, so does this mean I should use self to call internal functions or is this the proper way to do this with objects? Or best practices? Thanks in advance. var someObject = { start: function() { var self = this; self.check(); }, check: function() { console.log("Check!"); } }; someObject.start();

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